What i found interesting

In this week's discussion, i found something quite amusing. I found that generalizing in chapter 14 is the same thing as cause and effect. The examples that epstein gives is quite similar. For example, when Lee says "Every time i have gone to Luigi's, it has taken over 30 minutes to get our pizza. So let's not got there tonight because we are in a hurry." I say this is similar to cause and effect because the cause is them going to that particular restaurant, and the effect would be waiting for 30 minutes for a pizza. It takes that long probably because it is very good and it is a popular restaurant. I think this is true in reality as well because people are always generalizing without knowing it. But overall, i think that generalization summarizes most of the concepts we have learned in the book. I think out of all the chapters, i like this chapter the best.

My opinion

In this class, i have to say that my favorite thing about this class was not having to go to class, i loved the fact that it was online. That way, i can sleep in and complete an assignment and receive a good grade as well. I also liked that i learned so many things that i did not know about. Such as the concepts from the two books. I did not know that most of what we say and think today are related to the concepts. I can not say that i have something i liked least about this class. It was online, the assignments were easy, and the group was easy to work with, no complaints about that. This class can be improved by having the instructions to be more specific, some people understood it but some people did not, and i respect our professor for getting back to us as soon as possible on her busy schedule.

What I Learned

In this class, i have learned so many things. I have also learned that most of what we use in daily life has some meaning to it. For example, i learned that if i touch a hot stove, i will burn myself, that leads to the concept of cause and effect. I think that this class has a lot to offer and the fact that it is online makes it better so that people do not have to rush to class, they can sleep in and still get the work done and have a good grade in the class. I learned that communication can lead to new friends, with the group we were assigned, i learned many things about them. People also have their own lives and sometimes encounter concepts like appeal to emotion and appeal to pity, as well as appeal to spite. Its amusing how when we say something, we do not know that it is part of concepts say perceptions. When we see a man walking with tight pants, purple sunglasses, and walks in a different way. We automatically assume that he is gay, but we do not know that for sure. Overall, i really enjoyed this class.

Something Interesting

In this weeks reading, i found that the website for cause and effect to be the most useful because not only is it commonly used but it is high used in court. I am glad that the professor gave us a website on what the cause and effect is and gave people detailed descriptions on what makes the cause and effect model valid. I find that people use cause and effect situations to argue about. For example, there was a car stopped at a red light and another approaching from behind but was busy texting and could not stop in time, so the car from behind rear ended the car in front making it cause a traffic collision inside the intersection with other cars. Here, clearly the person from the back was at fault because he or she was texting and was not paying attention to the road and as a result, they caused a traffic collision that could have claimed some lives. I found this reasoning to be amusing because i did not know that we use cause and effect daily. But since i read and understood the concept of the reasoning, cause and effect is clear to me.

Cause and Effect

After reading the website about cause and effect, i find that this reasoning is used periodically and is very common in court of law. From what i know, cause and effect reasoning is when something happened and then another thing happened. Basically, the first scene that happened is the cause and the second scene of action of the effect. For example, because i ate the last bowl of frosted flakes, my brother requested my mom to get another box of cereal. If i did not eat the last bowl, he would not have begged my mom to get another box, he would have been full and satisfied with the amount he ate. The website about Causal arguments is useful because it allows us to know what the definition of cause and effect is and how it can be used in real life situations. Overall, i find this amusing because people in sociology majors have this term used a lot.

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For the Mission Critical website, i found it very useful. Not only is it easy to understand but it gives people description on every type of reasoning. I liked how the website gives us parts of what the basic of each reasoning is. I also like how the website gives people an analysis of the arguments, from introduction to inductive and deductive reasoning to non-universal syllogism, the areas goes into depth of each reasoning and how it is used in real life situations. i also like the fallacies and non-rational persuasion because this part gives examples of fallacies such as appeal to fear, pity, spite, loyalty, prejudice, and vanity. This website is useful because it can actually be taught as lessons to people who are first timers in learning reasoning and fallacies. I like this website because everything is organized and is described into depth of how the criterias are being used.

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In this week's session, i found a lot of things interesting so i might as well talk about everything. In the reasoning topics on the professor's page, i searched up every one of them and found that each one of them has a specific meaning to it. But they can all be used in conversations, arguments, and even persuasion. Reasoning by example can be very useful at time when you are trying to update a friend about what is going on in the world, if he does not understand what you mean, you can use examples to relate to what you guys are talking about. That way, it will be easier for him to understand and engage in the conversation. All these reasoning's can be useful in many ways,  if you are trying to relate something to something else, you can use reason of analogy. Reasons like this can start up a great conversation.